Pleiotropic might just be my favourite new word, thus overtaking November’s great word ‘Glyptotek’ (Danish for Sculpture museum). I digress. Pleiotropic is a word used to describe the ability of […]
JC: Progesterone’s pleiotropic failure in head injury. St.Emlyn’s Read More
A podcast about Diffuse Axonal Injury with John Hell
Podcast – Diffuse Axonal Injury with John Hell Read More
Mark Wilson. One of the things I love about medicine is the cross-fertilisation of ideas and techniques from one discipline to another. I worry that as more subspecialisation
Free Open Access RESUSCITATION – the GoodSamApp with Mark Wilson Read More
The diagnosis and management of major trauma in the elderly is a really hot topic in Emergency Medicine right now.  Compared to younger patients, the elderly can sustain much more serious
JC: When a subdural needs surgery in the elderly. St. Emlyn’s Read More
For reasons which I can’t discuss here I’m quite interested in the incidence of pituitary axis dysfunction following head injury, and indeed in the outcomes following all severities of head
JC: Anterior pituitary disorder following head injury Read More
Ladies and Gentlemen! The assessment and investigation of paediatric head injury is a case study in clinical risk management. Similar to chest pain in grown up medicine, it’s a frequent
JC: Duel of the Rules: Which decision rule for head injury in children? Read More
Here in Virchester we believe that families are important. Natalie has written before about the benefits of family presence during paediatric resuscitation and it’s pretty much standard practice in both
JC: Family presence for Brain Death Evaluation. St.Emlyn’s Read More
We already know that patients taking warfarin are at very high risk of intracranial haemorrhage (ICH) after head injury, and that delayed bleeds aren’t so uncommon either. Â In fact, we’ve
JC: Clopidogrel + head injury = CT? Read More
